[mac4theblind] Re: why have they dis continued the Mac Book?

  • From: Sarah Alawami <marrie12@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:00:39 -0700

Because I trust my drives taht make noise. I can listen to them wiht a coil and 
amp and know if they are broken. and again 1000 dollars for a 500 gig drive? 
I'll wait.
On Oct 26, 2011, at 5:43 PM, Bubba wrote:

> No, you cannot put one in the Mac book air and why would you want to? That
> would be like taking a BMW and turning it into a Volkswagen !
> 
> 
> Bubba
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mac4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:mac4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sarah Alawami
> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 8:34 PM
> To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [mac4theblind] Re: why have they dis continued the Mac Book?
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> Yeah! Um? No! I'm waiting for prices to fall. I can get a 500 gig  regular
> drive for probably 100 or so. and if that can be put in to the air I might
> go with it. Or I might just stick wiht a mini and use my phone as a note
> taker.
> On Oct 26, 2011, at 5:12 PM, George B wrote:
> 
>> you can get a s s d drive 512 in the 13 inch mac book pro for $1100 i 
>> was at the apple store today
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mac4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>> [mailto:mac4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sarah Alawami
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 5:10 PM
>> To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [mac4theblind] Re: why have they dis continued the Mac Book?
>> 
>> I still want a mack book pro as I don't trust  solid state drives. All 
>> they are are huge fjash drives that are waiting to die a violent 
>> death. and I want a 500 gig ssd drive and I won't be able to get that in
> an air.
>> 
>> Take care.
>> On Oct 26, 2011, at 1:49 PM, John Panarese wrote:
>> 
>>>  There is no real market need for the Mac Book.  The Mac Book Air 
>>> specs
>> were updated significantly in July with processor and memory and disk 
>> space increases.  So, it really made the regular Mac Book not 
>> necessary.  There really would be no category between the Mac Book Air and
> the Mac Book Pro.
>> You can get an Air for the same price as the old Mac Book, and it's a 
>> much better system now.  Mike's podcast was prior to Apple's complete 
>> overhaul of the Mac Book Air at the same time Lion was released.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Take Care
>>> 
>>> John D. Panarese
>>> Director
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>>> On Oct 26, 2011, at 4:09 PM, Daniel McGee wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi all, as I'm not really up on the Mac history it still struck me 
>>>> that
>> why they should discontinue the Mac Book all together. 
>>>> I red or heard somewhere that it was to be replaced by the Mac Book 
>>>> Air
>> and from what I understand you don't get alot of memory on that merchine.
>> Mike Arrigo says on a podcast of his that it is 64GB which is not 
>> alot. Im comparison I wonder how much the Mac book had before apple
> discontinued it.
>>>> But before I stray off the line my question was why do you and 
>>>> everyone
>> hear I invite people to make there own theories and ideas that apple 
>> decided to stop the mac book line. Because as a consumer that was 
>> going to be the Mac that I would buy but since that's no longer around 
>> then I would proably go for the Mac Book Pro option.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks
>>>> 
>>>> Daniel
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